Be sure that if you are at all successful in opposing a pipeline you
will get infiltrators, whether FBI or private security. Be prepared
to deal with it, whether by checking backgrounds, or comparing
lists, or by some other methods.

Joel McCollough, far right, at a climate march launch event in Chicago hosted by Food and Water Watch in April 2017. Photo: Courtesy of Gloria Araya, in
The Intercept_.

What he’s certain of is that the glimmer of opportunity he saw at
the beginning of the pipeline fight was extinguished when The
Intercept published more than 100 TigerSwan situation reports leaked
by a former operative, revealing the security firm’s extensive
surveillance efforts, coordination with law enforcement, and
comparisons of water protectors to jihadi fighters. …

He remembers thinking at one time, “If they watch their p’s
and q’s, they will be the standard. They’ll be the company that
everybody’s gonna use.” The former contractor laughed.
“That didn’t happen.”

Two small county family plot variances at ZBOA this afternoon, one in an agricultural zone,
the other in the Moody Activity Zone near Moody AFB.
And today they vote on who will be Chair and Vice-Chair next year,
as well as on their calendar of meetings.

Thanks to ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman, here is the
agenda and board packet,
in which you can see where these variances are being requested, who is requesting them, and why.

I did not know that Moody AFB was a local project from the beginning.
It’s still about the only thing everybody near Valdosta
and Lowndes County, Georgia, can all unite around.
Many local people learned to fly at Moody Airfield,
some who went into the military, and others who did not.
Let us remember them all on this Memorial Day.
They also serve who only stand and wait.

Moody Field began as an Army Air Corps pilot training base during
World War II. The concept of an Army Air Field in Valdosta
originated with Valdosta and Lowndes County citizens in 1940. Local
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